Ask your SCII Questions Nov. Edition

[electricmole]

Any new ideas on base building defenses? Are there any ideas to make certain type of base defenses like powerful ones? have you ever thought of having multiple types of base building defenses like floating or aerial base defenses, base defenses which deals AOE damage, or powerful ones like the ion canons which can only be taken down easily by special abilities like lockdowns or by a yamato blast.

Multiple type of base building defenses gives more strategy on which units to use and how to use them, thus making most if not all units usefull all the time.

[Caliban113]

*sigh*
well, let's see...

1.-Is the man spinning in the Missile turret just a joke

HA! - Little Missile Turret guy is one tough little SOB, man.


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[Wankey]

My question - Is there a design decision behind having the HP bars at the top? Reason being, having the HP bars naturally below the unit makes the unit view unobstructed. This was something that ONLY starcraft pioneered. Why did you switch it to Warcraft 3 model? Also, why are the hp bars so big? In Starcraft, they are quite small… It gave the impression that individual unit health wasn’t important (unlike in Warcraft 3)

[Hunter_I]

2. Protoss can get Observers, Warp-Prisms, Phoenix, and Void Rays very fast.
Gateway -> Cybernetics Core -> Robotics Bay
Gateway -> Cybernetics Core -> Stargate

That may be, but consider the time and the resource it will take a Terran to get 6 jumping reapers, and Toss to get an upcliff view and force suffiecient to kill these reapers before they do serious economy damage. How far back will Toss get only to be able to repell such reaper threat? The way it seems, reaper harass will be a default (and thus boring) thing for any TvP game, as in vesting in repelling it might expose Toss to almost immediate ground flood-assault by basic Terran units.

[Wankey]

Another reason SC1 was so amazingly balaced. See the amount of problems done by SC2 team just removing one aspect? If they put back the if attacked, you’re shown in fog. Then you’ve solved the reaper problem instantly.

[supersonic]

I think I'm too late but, do roaches still have increased regeneration while burrowed?

[Gt2slurp]

Blizzard's Exact Mathematical Definition of Soon:

{soon|0<soon<∞}

Pure Epicness

[Krikkitone]

That may be, but consider the time and the resource it will take a Terran to get 6 jumping reapers, and Toss to get an upcliff view and force suffiecient to kill these reapers before they do serious economy damage. How far back will Toss get only to be able to repell such reaper threat? The way it seems, reaper harass will be a default (and thus boring) thing for any TvP game, as in vesting in repelling it might expose Toss to almost immediate ground flood-assault by basic Terran units.

Actually they can do it Quicker than that

Gateway->Cybernetics Core->Hallucination+Disrupter simultaneously->Instant Colossus/VoidRay/Phoenix/WarpPrism?... and those Disrupters are useful v that flood of Ground Troops (Forcefield...ranged attack, etc.)

[DemolitionSquid]

Actually they can do it Quicker than that

Gateway->Cybernetics Core->Hallucination+Disrupter simultaneously->Instant Colossus/VoidRay/Phoenix/WarpPrism?... and those Disrupters are useful v that flood of Ground Troops (Forcefield...ranged attack, etc.)

Very good point. Hallucinations for sight. Brilliant tactic.

[Norfindel]

Very good point. Hallucinations for sight. Brilliant tactic.

Yep, very good one.

Still, Hallucination needs to be researched, right? But probably it's good enough to be researched frequently.